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shrilly like a man, cry like a kitten, and repeat a piping note 

 so rapidly that it sounds almost like a Goatsucker jarring. 

 Besides these it has a variety of other notes, many of them 

 very harsh, and is an exceedingly noisy bird. 



It climbs about the rocks and trees or sloping ground with 

 equal facility, although it is usually found amongst rocks. 

 When it sees anyone it stands straight up on the top of a 

 boulder and bobs rapidly up and down. Young, well-fledged 

 and well-grown, were in noisy parties at Ardakun (7500 ft.) on 

 May 20th, and were numerous at various places after that date. 



44. Lanius dealbatus de Filippi ; Ogilvie-Grant, Nov. 

 Zool. ix. p. 458, pi. xxvii. fig. 9. 



Lanius ful lax Sharpe (nee Finsch), Ibis, 1886, p. 484. 

 24. <$ ad. March 22nd, Bushire. 

 05. c? ad. March 31st, Kazran (2700 ft.). 



185. $ ad. April 16th, near Nudan (3200 ft.). 



No. 24 is typical of this species, as distinguished by Mr. 

 Ogilvie-Grant. Nos. 65 and 185 have the inner webs of most 

 of the secondaries brown or dusky instead of white ; but 

 in some newly-grown feathers the inner web is partially 

 white. In working out my Shrikes I have followed Mr. 

 Ogilvie-Grant in his latest work on the subject, but most 

 of the characters that it is possible to use in distinguishing 

 the Grey Shrikes are variable and unsatisfactory. 



Dr. Blanford refers his specimens of Great Grey Shrikes, 

 which were all obtained in Baluchistan and S.E. Persia, to 

 L. lahtora Sykes. 



Great Grey Shrikes were uncommon, and I saw only a feAV 

 near the coast and in the oak-woods up to an elevation of 

 3300 ft. They were very wild and difficult to approach. 



The bird shot on April 16th appeared to be breeding. 



15. Lanius pallidikostris Cassin ; Ogilvie-Grant, t. c. 

 p. 459, pi. xxvii. fig. 11. 



35. <$ ad. 



An adult male typical of this species, as distinguished by 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, was obtained at Ivonar Takhteh (1700 ft.) 

 on March 28th. Its testes were much enlarged. 



